Roles and Responsibilities

Mark Carroll is a Gartner Vice President and Research Analyst whose work focuses on Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures. His research and advisory coverage includes best practices, trends, and strategic insights for CIOs, as well as their cross-functional business executive colleagues, that drive and influence M&A activity. Mr. Carroll has 15+ years of experience leading global mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures in increasingly senior level roles within large enterprises, including four years as Gartner's own Vice President of Corporate Development/M&A. As an M&A practitioner, he focused on the full scope of acquisition and divestiture activities including transaction strategy, target or buyer sourcing, business case development, valuation, carve-out planning, cross-functional due diligence, purchase agreement negotiations, cross functional integration, and transition services (IT, HR, Finance, RE, Legal, Tax, Communications, Environmental, ESH, Trade Compliance, Insurance).

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